Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 18 1911	Joseph Vernon Turner Jr. is born in Kansas City, Missouri. He will find fame as blues shouter Big Joe Turner. (1911)
May 18 1912	Pierino Roland Como, better known as chart-topping US crooner Perry Como is born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. (1912)
May 18 1926	The Original Indiana Five record Deep Henderson, Spanish Mama and I'd Leave Ten Men Like Yours To Love One Man Like Mine for Harmony Records in New York City, USA. (1926)
May 18 1926	Teddy Brown And His Cafe De Paris Band record Hang On To Me, Susie Was A Real Wild Child, Two Little Cups And Saucers and So Am I, for Imperial Records in London, UK. (1926)
May 18 1936	Louis Armstrong And His Orchestra record Red Nose for Decca Records in the USA. (1936)
May 18 1937	The Benny Goodman Quartet record Diga Diga Doo in New York City, USA. (1937)
May 18 1937	Judy Garland performs Play Orchestra Play on US radio show Jack Oakie’s College. (1937)
May 18 1937	Jazz guitarist Dick McDonough And His Orchestra record Two Hearts Are Dancing, And Then They Call It Love and You're Looking For Romance, for Perfect Records in the USA. (1937)
May 18 1950	Sarah Vaughan records Ain't Misbehavin', Goodnight My Love and It Might As Well Be Spring, for Columbia Records at their studio in New York City, USA. Playing trumpet on the session is Miles Davis. (1950)
May 18 1950	The Johnny Dankworth Seven records Lightly Politely, Strike Up The Band, Marmaduke and Little Benny for Jazz Parade Records in London, UK. (1950)
May 18 1950	Stan Kenton And His Orchestra record the track Art Pepper for Capitol Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. Just to confuse things, Art Pepper is playing saxophone on the session. (1950)
May 18 1950	Jazz pianist Larry Green plays the fourth night of a ten-day engagement at Bill Green's Casino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (1950)
May 18 1950	Tex Beneke And His Orchestra play the fourth night of four weeks at The Cafe Rouge in The Hotel Statler, New York City, USA. (1950)
May 18 1951	Ray Anthony and his Orchestra play at Canobie Lake Park Ballroom, Salem, New Hampshire, USA. (1951)
May 18 1951	Oscar Rabin And His Band play at The Festival Hall, Kirkby In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, UK. (1951)
May 18 1953	Mary Ann McCall, vocalist with the Woody Herman Band, goes on trial in Hollywood, California on drugs charges. (1953) Mary Ann McCall : I once had a £7,000 home but now it’s gone because I had to spend between £140 and £180 each week on the stuff.
May 18 1953	Copyright is renewed on Dixieland jazz star Kid Ory?s best-known composition, Muskrat Ramble. (1953)
May 18 1953	Mary Ann McCall, vocalist with the Woody Herman Band, goes on trial in Hollywood, California, USA, on drugs charges. (1953)
May 18 1953	Billy Daniels plays at The Empire, Glasgow, Scotland. (1953)
May 18 1953	Billy Daniels begins a week of shows at The Empire, Glasgow, Scotland. (1953)
May 18 1960	Jazz saxophonist Harold Land plays at Fugazi Hall, San Francisco, California, USA, with a band that includes Wes Montgomery on guitar. (1960)
May 18 1966	Jan Garber And His Orchestra play at The Hub Ballroom, Edelstein, Illinois, USA. (1966)
May 18 1982	Tito Puente plays at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA, during a thirteen-night season. (1982)
May 18 2004	It is announced that the single All At Sea by Malmesbury-raised jazz star Jamie Cullum has become the Most Added track in the Adult Contemporary radio format this week in the USA. (2004)
May 18 2009	Herb Alpert and his singer wife Lani Hall are honoured for their charity work with an Ella award from The Society of Singers at the 18th Ella Awards ceremony in the Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California, USA. (2009).
May 18 2010	Jazz drummer Edgar Bateman Jr, who played with Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin and others, dies aged 81 following a heart attack. (2010)
May 18 2010	The Neil Cowley Trio play at The Stables, Milton Keynes, UK. (2010)